View with images and charts A Report On Intel Corporation 1.0- HISTORY: Intel is the most common name for chip producer in the world. The world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California, USA. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. The history of microcomputer, in the beginning period Intel produces a silicon chip (4004) that is the world first commercially available microprocessor. The chip is a 4-bit computer microprocessor. Around 1978-1979 Intel took the next step up by introducing the 8086 processor. This was one of the earlier 16-bit processors. IBM decided to us it. Around 1984-1985 Intel introduced the 80286, which added more sophisticated memory management. In 1987 the 80386 became available. This was a 32 bit word machine with real memory management The Pentium was introduced around 1992-93.